Detective Inspector Lou Stack is in the pocket of known villain Col McHugh, facilitating his life of crime, when her son Owen falls unwell, Lou decides it's time to change things, and make things, better.
It's a wonderfully slick first episode, it is beautifully produced, well filmed, it had an attractive, elegant cast, it features some great music.
It's almost over polished, but unfortunately all that polish can't gloss over what it ultimately is a pretty uninspiring and lacklustre debut episode.
It feels like a case of here we go again, another crooked cop on the take. This whole genre is starting to slide, why don't The BBC change it up and give us some Agatha Christie or Francis Durbridge, these slick and stylish, over the top thrillers are starting to decline in quality.
I had to check that I was actually watching the first episode, as I didn't get the scenario, I couldn't work out who was who, and what was going on, some introductions wouldn't have gone amiss.
Slack is in McHugh's pocket, I'm assuming he's on the radar of the powers that be, is she not worried that her colleagues would put the pieces together, and assume she's involved, it's hard to digest.
Leila Farzad is very good as Lou, I can't fault her performance, but her character is loathsome, a poor mother, wife and Detective, she's going to have to go some to win me over, is that maybe the plan, that by episode three she's the good guy?
5/10.